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Monday, 10 March 2014

Looting Of Ukraine

The Looting Of Ukraine Has Begun

By Paul Craig Roberts

This supporter of the Ukraine joining the EU has received
her reward: a 50% cut in her pension.

According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance
ministry of Washington’s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government
has prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian pensions from
$160 to $80 so that Western bankers who lent money to Ukraine can be repaid at
the expense of Ukraine’s poor. It is
Greece all over again.

Before anything approaching stability and legitimacy has
been obtained for the puppet government put in power by the Washington
orchestrated coup against the legitimate, elected Ukraine government, the
Western looters are already at work. Naive protesters who believed the
propaganda that EU membership offered a better life are due to lose half of
their pension by April. But this is only the beginning.

Her reward: a 50% cut in her pension.

The corrupt Western media describes loans as “aid.” However,
the 11 billion euros that the EU is offering Kiev is not aid. It is a loan.
Moreover, it comes with many strings, including Kiev’s acceptance of an IMF
austerity plan.

Remember now, gullible Ukrainians participated in the
protests that were used to overthrow their elected government, because they
believed the lies told to them by Washington-financed NGOs that once they
joined the EU they would have streets paved with gold. Instead they are getting
cuts in their pensions and an IMF austerity plan.

The austerity plan will cut social services, funds for
education, layoff government workers, devalue the currency, thus raising the
prices of imports which include Russian gas, thus electricity, and open
Ukrainian assets to takeover by Western corporations.

Ukraine’s agriculture lands will pass into the hands of
American agribusiness.

One part of the Washington/EU plan for Ukraine, or that part
of Ukraine that doesn’t defect to Russia, has succeeded. What remains of the
country will be thoroughly looted by the West.

The other part hasn’t worked as well. Washington’s Ukrainian
stooges lost control of the protests to organized and armed ultra-nationalists.
These groups, whose roots go back to those who fought for Hitler during World
War 2, engaged in words and deeds that sent southern and eastern Ukraine
clamoring to be returned to Russia where they resided prior to the 1950s when
the Soviet communist party stuck them into Ukraine.

At this time of writing it looks like Crimea has seceded
from Ukraine. Washington and its NATO puppets can do nothing but bluster and
threaten sanctions. The White House Fool has demonstrated the impotence of the
“US sole superpower” by issuing sanctions against unknown persons, whoever they
are, responsible for returning Crimea to Russia, where it existed for about 200
years before, according to Solzhenitsyn, a drunk Khrushchev of Ukrainian
ethnicity moved southern and eastern Russian provinces into Ukraine. Having
observed the events in western Ukraine, those Russian provinces want to go back
home where they belong, just as South Ossetia wanted nothing to do with
Georgia.

Washington’s stooges in Kiev can do nothing about Crimea
except bluster. Under the Russian-Ukraine agreement, Russia is permitted 25,000
troops in Crimea. The US/EU media’s deploring of a “Russian invasion of 16,000
troops” is either total ignorance or complicity in Washington’s lies.
Obviously, the US/EU media is corrupt. Only a fool would rely on their reports.
Any media that would believe anything Washington says after George W. Bush and Dick
Cheney sent Secretary of State Colin Powell to the UN to peddle the regime’s
lies about “Iraqi weapons of mass destruction,” which the weapons inspectors
had told the White House did not exist, is clearly a collection of
bought-and-paid for whores.

In the former Russian provinces of eastern Ukraine, Putin’s
low-key approach to the strategic threat that Washington has brought to Russia
has given Washington a chance to hold on to a major industrial complex that
serves the Russian economy and military. The people themselves in eastern
Ukraine are in the streets demanding separation from the unelected government
that Washington’s coup has imposed in Kiev. Washington, realizing that its
incompetence has lost Crimea, had its Kiev stooges appoint Ukrainian oligarchs,
against whom the Maiden protests were partly directed, to governing positions
in eastern Ukraine cities. These oligarchs have their own private militias in
addition to the police and any Ukrainian military units that are still
functioning. The leaders of the protesting Russians are being arrested and
disappeared. Washington and its EU puppets, who proclaim their support for
self-determination, are only for self-determination when it can be orchestrated
in their favor. Therefore, Washington is busy at work suppressing
self-determination in eastern Ukraine.

This is a dilemma for Putin. His low-key approach has
allowed Washington to seize the initiative in eastern Ukraine. The oligarchs
Taruta and Kolomoyskiy have been put in power in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk,
and are carrying out arrests of Russians and committing unspeakable crimes, but
you will never hear of it from the US presstitutes. Washington’s strategy is to
arrest and deep-six the leaders of the secessionists so that there no
authorities to request Putin’s intervention.

If Putin has drones, he has the option of taking out Taruta
and Kolomoyskiy. If Putin lets Washington retain the Russian provinces of
eastern Ukraine, he will have demonstrated a weakness that Washington will
exploit. Washington will exploit the weakness to the point that Washington
forces Putin to war.

The war will be nuclear.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was
columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators
Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have
attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West is now available.

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